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RE: Ashes in England 2023
(17-06-2023 21:45 )Boomerangutangangbang Wrote: ^^ You're way off the mark with Bairstow, he is a specialist keeper, & always takes the gloves in Championship cricket for Yorkshire, about 100 matches.
Foakes has missed chances for England this winter, & for Surrey this season. Yes, he is better standing up to the stumps, but in England most of the deliveries will be bowled by seamers. Cut Bairstow some slack, he's coming back from what could've been a career ending injury & 6 months out the game.
Rightly or not, the fact is the very best keepers in their country rarely make the Test side. Carey is not the best, Pant is an average keeper, I could go on.
You are spot on about Crawley, Rob Key's golden boy. But I would prefer 2 specialist openers. Don't forget neither Crawley or Duckett were opening in the Championship until recently. The issue is that we have an abundance of middle order batsmen, but haven't found one opener since Cook & Straus.
Badly worded on my part Booms! You are of course right, Bairstow is a specialist keeper, but he isn't the # 1 by a distance! My point was that instead of picking the keeper for doing the specialist job at the highest possible standard just about everyone says that is Foakes _ 'Bairs' keeping for yorkshire is a whole different ball game, you know that as well as I do!, you compromise based on another set of criteria! Not sure many fans (albeit ashes only fans) will cut him any slack, if his errors (leaving aside the previously mentioned bowler no - ball issue) are the difference in the end!
One other issue, is that around Moeen Ali!! It looks like he may be struggling with that digit, with a tight schedule ahead in the series! What do England do then?? If they dragged Moeen Ali away from his pipe and slippers test retirement for this Ashes journey, what does that say about the next cabs off the rank?? Who would they turn too if he can't complete the next 6 weeks?? Further, It is said that come the end of the Ashes, he won't continue in tests??, so they will have to find someone for the winter tours, and - of course - next summers test series and beyond! That being the case, are they really sure that there was no other candidate who could have come in during the current series?? but will be the suitable replacement in a few short months?? If that is true, that shouts loudly the fact that they see (we already knew this) the Ashes as the true and only barometer, so are unwilling to try anyone else at this point, but moving forward, consider opponents to come as a 'trial' for the next occupant?? I know we have done this to the point of boredom, but, I am sorry, it is ludicrous!
NB Looked like the end of the world when they came off! Not sure how much more there will be today with more rain! When Green took that latest grab (he is a phenomenal fielder in that position) there was some serious water that sprung up!
(This post was last modified: 18-06-2023 16:08 by hornball.)
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